Narratives of Chinese Economic Reforms: How Does China Cross the River? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789814293303)

Rapid growth in the Chinese economy over the past three decades poses puzzles and challenges to neo-classical economic theory, as policies implemented during the reform process were often unorthodox. Although the Chinese experience has been widely studied, myths and questions about these reforms remain. To fill in the knowledge gap, and to inform a process of learning from China's development successes, this book features a series of case studies on the policy process of different initiatives, including rural industrialization, dual-track price reform, migration policy, village elections and fiscal reform. Uniquely, many of the authors of the case studies were deeply involved in these reforms, either through direct policymaking or through providing analytical and technical support that led to these policy changes. They provide a first-hand account of how the political processes occurred, how social and political entrepreneurs shaped the choices and sequences of various reforms, and how the rigidities and sometimes erroneous beliefs were overcome.

Author: Xiaobo Zhang
ISBN-10: 981429330X
ISBN-13: 9789814293303
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Language: English
Published: 07/30/2010
Pages: 200
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 0.70d